From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bradley M Alexander Message-ID: <20011115020138.J1585@sonsofthunder.yi.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Subject: [linux-lvm] Restricted partitions? Sender: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Thu Nov 15 01:00:02 2001 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@sistina.com Hello all, Are there any partitions/filesystems that should not be used without an initrd besides /? Here is my partition list: /dev/hda3 1542188 1056676 485512 69% / /dev/hda1 7746 3499 3847 48% /boot /dev/hda5 1517920 724696 762384 49% /var /dev/hda6 155545 41 147474 1% /tmp /dev/hda7 1028092 876116 151976 86% /home /dev/hda8 1542156 967744 574412 63% /usr/local /dev/hda9 514028 286816 227212 56% /opt /dev/hda10 8192832 7117692 1075140 87% /mirror /dev/hda11 15213032 13261916 1951116 88% /archive As you can see, /home, /mirror and /archive are starting to get close to having a problem, which I why I wanted to implement lvm. I have two 30GB drives, the secomd of which is empty, so I was going to put /var, /tmp, /home, /usr/local, /opt, /mirror and /archive on a volgroup on the second drive, then once it stabilized, create a second volgroup on /dev/hda from the partitions that are now on the volgroup on hdb. I went in, using 1.0.1rc4 and kernel 2.4.13 and created the partitions on the volume group on hdb. Ran lilo and changed fstab. Rebooted and it could not mount the volumes, and gave me a "Can't locate module /dev/vg01" and for each partition, it tries to load them as modules. The LVM code is compiled into the kernel. At this point, I have two prime suspects. Either one of the partitions I am trying to mount on the volume group should not be without an initrd (/tmp or /var?) or its a problematic interaction with devfs. Can anyone point me to a solution? Regards, -- --Brad ============================================================================ Bradley M. Alexander, CISSP | Co-Chairman, Beowulf System Admin/Security Specialist | NoVALUG/DCLUG Security SIG Debian/GNU Linux Developer | storm@debian.org | storm@tux.org ============================================================================ No, just _a_ Zaphod Beeblebrox. Didn't you hear? I come in six-packs."